Thank you for helping make contact tracing simple and secure for everyone across Wellington!

Wellington City Council is offering to cover the first three month licence cost for Council Controlled Organisations and Wellington’s cultural, recreation, business and community organisations to sign up to use Rippl - a simple and secure contact tracing app. The Council has partnered with local digital agency, PaperKite to make contact tracing across our city simple. This offer is only available to cultural, recreation, business and community organisations in and across Wellington city wards and suburbs.

How to set Rippl up for your organisation and customers

You’ll need an email address to register with Rippl online

If your organisation has more than one location where customers visit, you need to register a separately for each one. This is so each site has its own QR code in Rippl.

You will need a unique email address for each of the locations you register with Rippl. If you need to register a number of locations, and you only have one email address, then Rippl suggests (assuming your email provider supports it) you use a "+" after your email address. For example: joe.bloggs+site1@gmail.com and joe.bloggs+site2@gmail.com

Once you have registered with Rippl you will receive a QR Code poster in PDF format (example attached) with the location’s unique QR Code.

Print copies of the QR Code PDF poster to display at all entrances.

Keep the poster PDF in a safe place so that you can print replacements if required. If you do lose the PDF, you can get a replacement from the confirmation email sent to you by Rippl once you've registered.

Rippl has also developed a poster (example attached) explaining how people can check in and out. You can display these next to or near the QR Code posters.

The Government has created a page for what to do if you cannot access essential services. This includes financial support, accessing essential goods, advice regards contacting your local Civil Defence group.

Finding the support and services you need during the Covid-19 lockdown has just become a lot easier in Wellington with the launch of an online interactive map and directory. Developed by Wellington City Council, the map shows who to contact for support and essential services and where to find them in your neighbourhood.

SOCIAL SECTOR INFORMATION

Covid-19 Social Impact Report and Dashboard​The Salvation Army Social Policy and Parliamentary Unit is releasing a fortnightly Covid-19 Social Impact Dashboard see report to try and record the outcomes of COVID-19 on our nation, but particularly for poorer, vulnerable Kiwi facing serious hardship in this new normal. This is an important resource welcomed by NZCCSS.

Older people in New Zealand - Please ask for help and stay connected! Age Concern Wellington, along with Age Concerns throughout New Zealand, want to make sure all older people are supported through this pandemic. During a time of uncertainty and social distancing it is normal to worry and feel stressed. ​We are here to help you: please get in touch:04 499 6646 or info@ageconcernwellington.org.nz

How Age Concern is Helping Seniors Get Through

Helping our seniors connect with their community in an important part of what we do and now it’s more important than ever. Fortunately, some of our most isolated and vulnerable people in the community are already connected with volunteers through our Volunteer Visitor Service. However, over the next few weeks and months there will be many more people needing volunteer support.

What we’re doing

Help with shopping and essential items – We’ll connect seniors who need help with shopping with volunteers in their area to ensure they are able to stay safe at home. Shopping will need to be left in an agreed place so you can maintain distance. We’re also asking people to try and limit the use of cash where possible by coming to an arrangement for reimbursement. This could be by online banking or cheque – please do not share bank cards or PIN numbers. We also recommend setting a limit to the amount to be spent to ensure there’s no confusion.

Advice and support – we’re continuing to give advice and support to seniors by phone and email on the contacts below.

Become a phone friend – volunteer to give someone a regular call to make sure they’re okay and keep their spirits up. Whether you’re older or younger it’s nice to have a friendly chat.

Become a pen pal – bring joy to someone’s day and rediscover the lost art of letter writing. Letters can be sent by email and NZ Post when possible. We’ll match people who would like to keep in touch through a regular letter.

Our weekly Chatter email newsletter will provide information, encouragement and entertainment! If you use email please sign up to Chatter. We know not everyone has email so we’re asking volunteers to print and deliver it to seniors in their area.

If you would like to request help with shopping please call 04 499 6648 or 04 499 6646 or emailinfo@ageconcernwellington.org.nz.If you would like to volunteer, please complete the form below so we know where you are and how you’d like to help.Please keep in touch with what’s happening through our weekly Chatter email newsletter.Subscribe here.

The Health Literacy Project has published factsheets explaining COVID-19 to children in 35 languages. All of the materials were reviewed and vetted by physicians and medical school faculty members at the Harvard hospitals. These materials are freely available for download and distribution without copyright restrictions. Access them here

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RESOURCES TO SUPPORT THE DEAF COMMUNITY

A Facebook page has been set up by the Deaf community called: Deaf Positive NZ. This page has been set up to offer a way for the Deaf community to connect with each other during the lockdown by hosting online activities, exercise, art, story telling etc.) and offering online informal and formal supports for Deaf people across NZ.

Deaf Aotearoa’s Hauora service is a nationwide service that understands and responds to Deaf and hard-of-hearing people’s needs. The Hauora service offers: needs assessment and coordination; applications for assistive equipment; information and advice - https://www.deaf.org.nz/what-we-do/hauora/

Deaf Aotearoa are hosting the most up to date accessible information in New Zealand Sign Language (NZSL) for the Deaf community about the evolving Covid-19 situation. For more information go here: https://www.deaf.org.nz/covid-19/.

WWW.COVIDNZSL.INFO | Bringing it all together! This is a website which has been set up for the New Zealand Deaf community, to find, share and create content related to COVID-19. This includes all the latest updates and a livestream page with an up-close shot of the NZSL interpreter during daily live-streaming sessions, and open calls for NZSL translations of news, articles, and radio programmes – to ensure that Deaf peoples' knowledge around COVID-19 is on a par with that of the hearing community.

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VOLUNTEER GUIDELINES​Volunteering New Zealand has released resources for organisations using volunteers during COVID-19:

PANDEMIC RESPONSE PLAN​Transparency International New Zealand has shared their pandemic policy which can be adapted and used by other organisations. The policy is available on their website see link below.

If you fancy the idea of bringing your community together online, products like Zoom are pretty good and easy to use. As the pandemic pushes work online, Zoom is the new office.Follow these tips to get the most out of those video meet-ups.

Working from Home Planners - Download​LEAD has designed two planners to ensure you do not fall foul of the common pitfalls of working remotely:

Challenges with leading or being part of a virtual team

Difficulty in separating work life from home life

Feelings of isolation and loneliness

Hours that fly by with seemingly 24-hour workdays

Inappropriate and ergonomically unhealthy workspaces

Lack of (or too many) breaks

Distractions from family and friends (Afterall you are 100% available!)

Adding to this is that we are now all working virtually in a high stress and unfamiliar environment. We risk not taking care of our own wellbeing and spending our waking hours juggling work and the new needs of our families.

These planners will help your team to work together in a virtual world and organise their days to help them be productive and achieve their goals.